4) Who/what were the major figures, actions, successes, and set backs in the fight for equality for your group?


As you research your question, keep track of:
  • What questions do you still have that relate to the topic? What did your topic cause you to wonder about?
  • Cite your sources in MLA format. (You may use BIBME or Citation Machine).

Civil liberty set backs include: Attacks on marriage fairness for LGBT couples; efforts to deny women insurance for abortion care; people and organizations using religion as a basis to discriminate or denying services; the peddling of pseudo-science to perpetuate old fashioned gender stereotypes and sex segregation in the classroom; a nationwide effort by state legislatures to restrict access to the ballot box, anti-immigrant laws that codify racial profiling by targeting Latinos and other people of color; and discriminatory disciplinary practices that push kids of color out of school and into the criminal justice system.